Jesuits and Race -

Jesuits and Race

A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530-2020
Buch | Softcover
298 Seiten
2024
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6732-7 (ISBN)
32,35 inkl. MwSt
Examines the role that the Society of Jesus played in shaping Western understandings about race and explores the impact the Order had on the lives and societies of non-European peoples throughout history. The essays bring together case studies as a first step toward a comparative analysis of Jesuit engagement with racialized difference.
Jesuits and Race examines the role that the Society of Jesus played in shaping Western understandings about race and explores the impact the Order had on the lives and societies of non-European peoples throughout history. Jesuits provide an unusual, if not unique, lens through which to view the topic of race given the global nature of the Society of Jesus and the priests' interest in humanity, salvation, conversion, science, and nature.

Jesuits' global presence in missions, imperial expansion, and education lends insight into the differences in patterns of estrangement and assimilation, as well as enfranchisement and coercion, with people from Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The essays in this collection bring together case studies from around the world as a first step toward a comparative analysis of Jesuit engagement with racialized difference. The authors hone in on labor practices, social structures, and religious agendas at salient moments during the long span of Jesuit history in this fascinating volume.

Nathaniel Millett is an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. Charles H. Parker is a professor of history at Saint Louis University. His publications include Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800; Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800; and Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age.

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Introduction. Jesuits and Race from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

     Nathaniel Millett and Charles H. Parker

Chapter One. “The Society of the World:” Antonio Possevino (1533–1611 and the Jesuit Debate over Purity of Blood

     Emanuele Colombo

Chapter Two. Eternal Blackness: Body and Soul in Jesuit Martiìn de Roa’s Afterlife

     Erin Kathleen Rowe

Chapter Three. Jesuits and Unfree Labor in Early Modern East Asia

     Liam Matthew Brockey

Chapter Four. Jesuits and “Race” in Early Modern Chile: Valdivia’s Letters to the King, 1604–1618

     Andrew Redden

Chapter Five. How to be a Country Jesuit: Practices of Continence, Care, and Containment in a Racializing Religiosity

     J. Michelle Molina

Chapter Six. “The Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples in the New World”: Decoding the Jesuit Missionary Project in Colonial North Mexico

     Susan M. Deeds

Chapter Seven. The Memory of Slavery at Saint Louis University

     Nathaniel Millett

Chapter Eight. A Challenge to our Sincerity: American Jesuits Discover “The Negro”

     James M. O’Toole

Chapter Nine. Trial by Fire: Father George Dunne and Race Relations in Cold War Los Angeles

     Sean Dempsey, S.J.

Epilogue

     John T. McGreevy




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Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.2024
Zusatzinfo 3 Illustrations, 3 drawings
Verlagsort Albuquerque, NM
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 0-8263-6732-1 / 0826367321
ISBN-13 978-0-8263-6732-7 / 9780826367327
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